Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-08
BoRuCK ON TIE BOOM.
What a Practical Business Man Has
Say to Practical Business Men.

was swelled possibly to fifteen.
After calling the meeting to order, the
Chairman, DR.. Simmons, said there was
present a gentleman who had Travelled
lately through the southern portion OF the
State, and who no doubt could give the
committee some valuable points, the re-
suit of his observations in Los Angeles and
San Diego. He called up Hon. Marcus D.
Boruck for remarks.
Mr.. Boruck in responding said: l have
always been interested in the progress and
advancement of Sacramento, and whenever
l am at the Capitol l consider myself one
of your citizens. For that reason | came
here by request this evening to relate to
you little of what ! have seen in the
southern portion of the State. Nothing
would afford me greater pleasure than to
see this people
GO AHEAD AND DO SOMETHING
For the advancement of this section. !
want to see every portion of this State
prosper; not any one section in particular,
but the Commonwealth as a whole, from
Siskiyou to San Diego, and from the mount
aims on the east to where the waters of the
Pacific wash our western shores. One por-
ton cannot be prosperous without the
others deriving some benefit, but the push,
and energy, and business-iike action OF the
people in some portions put them years in
advance of those who wait patiently for the
good time coming and do nothing toward
encouraging speedy settlement. While all
are anxious to secure a good class of i'm
migration, some sections go about it, and
get it, while others meet, resolve, talk and
ACTUALLY DO NOTHING.
| have just returned from a ten days
visit to Southern California. l might say
that l have just passed ten days in dream
land, for what l have witnessed-the
grandeur, magnifeence of the country 1
have visited is, 1 might say, beyond my
comprehension. The experience of those
days has shown me a country in all its at
fractions and wealth that it would be i'm
possible to understand or appreciate from
reading. The business activity, the growth
in population and wealth IS something
almost beyond believing. Eighteen
months ago San Diego was an active bust
ness town of some 5000 or $500
inhabitants. To-day it is a magnifi-
cent city of 10000 souls, and increasing
in population and wealth with surprising
rapidity. San Diego is large and magnifi-
cent city, that has sprung into existence as
by magic, as if built in a night. 1t has
seaport which has no superior save the bay
of San Francisco on the Pacific coast. Her
hotels grand, new, magnificent her
streets wide, open, graded; her private
residences palatial in proportion and
ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY,
And outside of the few on Mob Hill in
San Francisco, there is nothing west of the
Rocky Mountains that can compare with
them. Her public buildings are not cheap
structures, but large, durable, and of mod
ern architecture. Her business houses
and manufactures are immense in
size, strongly built and fully as
many more are in course of erection. Ten
days ago the plans and specifications were
made for bank building with fifty-foot
front, depth of 100 feet. to be four stories
in hight, and cost $780, 600, and the founda-
ton is already almost completed. San
Diego has a people with push, energy,
pluck and go-aheadedness that would stag
ger the slow-going people of the north who
are waiting for something to turn up"
San Diego is the only city ia the State
where the cars and ships come together.
The smoke of the locomotive rolls among
the rigging of the ships and commingles
with that of the great steamships that pillow
the Pacific.
TALK OF ENTERPRISE,
Just see what has been accomplished at
Coronado Beach. The syndicate that pur-
chased that property, only short time ago,
have already sold off lots amounting to
s., $50, 900 and have erected the Coronado
Hotel, which for size, magnifcence and
location, has no superior on the
continent. The grounds are most beauti-
full, are planted to luxuriant growths of
tropical plants. The only drawback to
III, - 1.
city is limited, but this is
overcome in a great measure by the
immense value of her seaport. Her banks
are full to overlooking, and there is more
business and
ENTERPRISE EXHIBITED
There daily than is observable here in a
year. OF course the railroads have been
one of the leading factors in this sudden
of values in this unpre-
cedented growth in population. Take,
with her area equal to that of half
of Great Britain, an empire within
herself. She few years ago had small
population. To-day within her borders are
fully $4,000 people. She has all the land
that is required to meet the demands of the
incoming immigration for years, and those
of the north, who are biding their time,
waiting for Los Angeles to fill up, thinking
that they will then get the overflow, will
never see that day. The children that are
PLAYING in the streets of Sacramento to-day
Will have
AGED AND PASSED AWAY,
The daisies will be blooming over the
graves of the members of the Sacramento
Improvement Association, when that day
comes which is so far in the future that
'twere folly for those of the present age to
talk about it. Los Angeles is truly mag
niicent city her buildings will compare
favorably with those of any city on the
continent. To-day Los Angeles is short
fully 1000 residences, and the only reason
that more buildings are not constructed is
that there is limit to skilled labor; every
mechanic, no matter what line he follows
has all he can do. There are more men
with buggies and carriages upon the street
than you could count, all ready to show the
stranger around and assist him in
PLACING HIS MONEY
In real estate. These new arrivals make
daily deposits ranging from $40, 900 to $50.
600, and one few days since deposited
$685. hard cash, all of which is
seeking investment. Talk about the
Southern California boom's giving out
it never will as long as the railroads con.
tinue to bring in this class of people. A;
Los Angeles they are arriving at the rate
of !, 500 day, and one day last week the
number footed up $500. They have pro.
jected driveway to be shaded and macada.
mixed from Los Angeles to the ocean, a
distance of IA miles, and all the stock is
taken. Riverside has driveway IA miles
in length that is not surpassed in any
country. They have
BOOM THAT IS A BOOM.
1t has solidity too, and it has come to stay
They pursue different course down there
from what you do in the North. They
send out their best men to meet these inn
migrants, they know how to advertise, and
where TO advertise most effectively. They
issued tons, carloads of newspapers, pam
phlets and reading matter relative to their
fairy land" and they see to it that il
all falls into hands were it is read, and the
end desired is secured. In order to do this
they have secured, and will have no other
the services of wide-awake, educated and
intelligent gentlemen Talk about bust.
ness, why the local traffic on the A and P
Railroad between San BerDardino and Lo:
Angeles runs up
INTO THE MILLIONS ANNUALLY,
While all the country traversed by thai
road between those two points is suscepti.
BILE of the highest degree of cultivation and
capable of supporting an enormous popu.
lation. Now what are you to do to i'm.
prove your condition? How are YOU to
secure a similar Immigration that will he